VESC V4.12 to BLDC mower motor.

[Evwan]

I meant get it through an older version of vesc tool. The VESC bootloader has had a few changes, especially the one for FW6 and onward.

old vesc tool can be found here

Precompiled VESC Tool Archive

Since each build of the VESC Tool is compatible with only a few particular versions of the VESC Firmware, every now and then we find ourselves searching around for a place to download a precompiled executable of one of the older versions. When faced with this situation you either have to find it by googling, ask around on the forum, or download the source code and compile it yourself. All of these take time and can turn a simple task into a real pain. To remedy this, we have decided to crowdsou…

Download 2.03 (FW4.2) vesc tool. Should be a good intermediary

Upload the bootloader from the bootloader tab of the firmware section, then try updating to firmware 4.2

Then from there try the latest vesc tool. If that still doesnt work, update to FW5.3, then latest, but it should work without that step